Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

@Ponypoor ~ your basking hen pics reminds me of @featherhead007 's pic of cats basking in the yard. Couldn't find his photo but this one caught my attention!

cats by popular demand

 

[featherhead007]

Like @TOMTE wish we could have a roo They are so regal.

There’s nothing more life changing than a good relationship with a rooster!

 

[featherhead007]

I've noticed our hens will be very actively eating/foraging/dustbathing all morning, then they slow down, preen, then rest/snooze to digest their crop sometime tween noon & 2:00...then actively start to feed/forage/ & dustbathe again before going to roost to digest a full crop overnight.

Mention Subway Sandwich with everything. See how they respond. You better be inside a shark cage when you say that!

 

[Sylvester017]

Lost Tippy tonight….

Spent 35 min looking for her, became frustrated and annoyed. Then resigned to her being gone. Of course then I stopped and through where did I last see her.

Reenie’s hay net. Went and check and there she was in the hay net, she laid an egg there - no wonder Reenie wasn’t eating her hay!

I told her off called of some names then chucked her out of the net. It’s not a good time to irritate me chook - I don’t feel well, my arthritis is miserable, I don’t sleep, I have cankers in my mouth and they cause more pain, then when I thought that she would be gone for good it just made me irritated not sad. She is such a troublemaker!

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Did you lose her temporarily like a wallet?... or do you mean she's gone gone? Our Ginny used to lay her eggs around the yard but since everyone else has been using the nestboxes she decided to join the competition to use the boxes too.

 

[featherhead007]

Guilded gold aero decided to be my favorite tonight. She’s 6 lbs of heavy golden feathers and stubborn as an x wife

 

[featherhead007]

Guilded gold aero decided to be my favorite tonight. She’s 6 lbs of heavy golden feathers and stubborn as an x wife View attachment 4119510

Beating her feathers in anger, reminds me all too well!

 

[knoturavggrl]

New Coop: We Built a Chicken Palace (and Survived)!


It’s done! Our feathered overlords finally have their dream home. Here’s the chaotic tale of how we pulled it off, for anyone who may consider this option.


We started with two boxes that promised they would become a Lifetime 8x10 shed with skylights—two big ones and a row of little ones along the roof. Lots of natural light in case the chickens want to party under the stars.

The Base: A Curse-Filled Odyssey

The shed demands a fancy concrete pad or wood platform. Did we do that? Ha, nope! Instead, we went rouge and put together an 8x10 cinder block rectangle with a middle row, stuffed with sand, gravel, and rock. The ground was sloped, so we dug, swore, and dug some more to level it.

The Build: Less Pain, More YouTube

Shockingly, the shed went up without a hitch. It’s 500 lbs of plastic and metal frame but the pieces were light enough for us mortals. The doors, though? We wrestled those suckers for hours to make them hang right and shut without attitude. The instructions were written by someone who hates humans, so YouTube became our guru. Pro tip: worship the algorithm. Oh, and the shed’s vents are decent, so our chicks won’t suffocate in their own sass. We drilled concrete screws into the base to keep this beast from sailing away in a storm.

To-Do List: Send Help

Still gotta carve out a hole for the auto door (praying I don’t botch it), hang roost bars, and drag in the nest box. Also, I’m hauling 2 tons of construction sand in my poor Jeep Gladiator—four trips to the gravel pit, because apparently I hate my suspension. Send snacks.

I will have pics this weekend once it’s chick-ready. Our feathered dino’s are clawing at their tent, so it’s good this is almost done or they might make it out and take over the living room!

 

[Marie2020]

Mention Subway Sandwich with everything. See how they respond. You better be inside a shark cage when you say that!

I really don't like the subway sandwiches. I've tried them a couple of times i found their bread and fillings tasteless

 

[SimpleJenn]

3 cochin chicks are hatched. One egg has a pip, and had dried paper towel over it so I peeled it back, which took some shell too. I wasn't sure what else to do because it’s bleeding??? I dabbed water on the membrane that was left behind and put it back in the incubator for now. I...don't know what to do with it.

Spoiler: Warning:blood

I will keep checking on it but hopefully the chick can get itself out now.

The last egg, no pip, no peeps, could be a dud or might just be biding it's time. Either way, I need to walk away from the incubator because I was up all night nursing it through error after error. In fact, it just beeped again and I flinched.

 

[bgmathteach]

Lost Tippy tonight….

Spent 35 min looking for her, became frustrated and annoyed. Then resigned to her being gone. Of course then I stopped and through where did I last see her.

Reenie’s hay net. Went and check and there she was in the hay net, she laid an egg there - no wonder Reenie wasn’t eating her hay!

I told her off called of some names then chucked her out of the net. It’s not a good time to irritate me chook - I don’t feel well, my arthritis is miserable, I don’t sleep, I have cankers in my mouth and they cause more pain, then when I thought that she would be gone for good it just made me irritated not sad. She is such a troublemaker!

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I'm sorry, Pony, but that is just what my chickens do. Get me all worried and in a tizzy at times...then they give you the: 'What - I was just..xyz...why you all upset???'


Hope you feel better soon!